Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [is] that " in BNC.

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1 The er the defence case is that er there was no duty a and in my submission it must be of assistance to your Lordship to determine that issue to hear evidence from both sides upon whether there is such a practice and if there is what the extent of it is .
2 The special feature of chirp radar is that it does not have a fixed carrier frequency during each shriek .
3 The trouble with bit maps is that they are inflexible and expensive .
4 The majority verdict is that Seve 's handiwork is difficult but fair , and tournament director , Andy McFee , aims to keep it that way by utilising a variety of tees , including some of the ladies ' , to strike the right balance .
5 One of the major tenets of the mental models theory of text comprehension is that the model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for understanding the current sentence .
6 As the Minister and I agree that the fatal weakness of the MacSharry proposals is that they will increase the cost of the common agricultural policy , thus breaching the budgetary limit , will the Minister give the House a guarantee today that the Government will use their right of veto on any proposals to breach the budgetary limit ?
7 The other aspect of the MacSharry proposals is that the compensation terms are incredibly generous .
8 One of the problems with the MacSharry proposals is that , instead of bringing agriculture closer to the market , they will perpetuate existing excessive levels of support for the majority of farmers .
9 I would go so far as to say that one of the main reasons why there are fewer casualties among pedestrians and particularly children in countries such as West Germany is that that country has more flexibility in the use of speed limits .
10 One of the big dangers of group training is that if the first one has n't got the skills skills is that he might not get anything out of it .
11 Swindon author Dr Colin Francome , who co-wrote the book , explained at today 's launch that research shows that one reason for the increase in Caesarean operations is that consultants are afraid of a law suit if the baby 's born naturally and is n't healthy .
12 Another argument used to advocate key settlement policies is that they favour employment growth .
13 Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs .
14 The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m .
15 The essential nature of a stem cell is that it is self-renewing and , as its name implies , the source of other cells .
16 The reason for the hair loss is that during pregnancy hormone levels are higher and keep the hair in its growing phase for much longer .
17 The rationale for the inclusion of B in the money equation is that governments may finance expenditures which they are reluctant to pay for through taxes by methods which expand the money stock .
18 ‘ I would remind you , Headmaster , that small as our boarding section is , the Ministry recommendation is that for any establishment of twenty boarders or more , a qualified matron be employed .
19 Under CBA the decision criterion is that a project should be undertaken providing that the discounted value of the social benefits attributed to the project exceeds the discounted value of the social costs attributed to the project .
20 The initial investment outlay is deducted from the sum of these present value cash flows to produce the NPV of a project ; the decision rule is that all projects yielding a positive NPV should be accepted and all projects yielding a negative NPV should be rejected .
21 ‘ The thing with The Wedding Present is that they can be as big and as successful as they want to be , ’ says Marshall .
22 The main part of Residents ' Association case is that the amount of relief afforded by any western relief road , does not justify the environmental damage which that road will cause .
23 One of the most remarkable things about the Peniel story is that the larger narrative proceeds almost entirely as if it was not there .
24 However , one of the problems with fan clubs is that they tend to operate for very young people .
25 The research hypothesis is that each of these aspects exerts influence upon and is in turn influenced by the other two , and the project is designed to establish the precise nature of the inter-relationship .
26 The second thing to say about humorous crime fiction is that you have to reconcile in your pages that sharp difference between crime , which arises from evil , and laughter , which is by and large a manifestation of good .
27 The trouble about Ellis 's preoccupation with crime fiction is that it 's a genre that sits most comfortably in an England that is dead and gone . ’
28 The Kinloss Canoe Club experience is that downstream is both quicker and easier .
29 ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League .
30 A problem that arises in the Timor Gap case is that , although the circumstances of Indonesia 's invasion of East Timor in December 1975 are well known , there has been no authoritative judicial determination of its illegality , or of the legitimacy of Portugal 's claim to be the continuing administering authority .
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